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Electron scattering off protons yielded the first indications for the finite size of the proton (Hofstadter 1957) and, later, the experimental evidence (Friedman, Kendall, Taylor 1967) for the modern parton model of the nucleon.
J.J. Thomson got the Nobel prize for demonstrating that the electron is a particle. George Thomson, his son, got the Nobel prize for demonstrating that the electron is a wave. For me the electron is simply a second quantized relativistic field operator.
Physics Colloquium, Heidelberg 2001 Cecilia Jarlskog
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Povh, B., Rosina, M. (2017). Lepton Scattering – Nucleon Radius. In: Scattering and Structures. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54515-7_2
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